Tuesday, December 13, 2016 The Virgin Islands Daily News 11 —, z > = — ee es ic ——_ * CENTENNIAL SCENE @& ™ = ti ; _ Z ; 5 neil et ; : = Fort Salé (formerly Fort } ee Fort Salé : Flamand) at the entrance fae y to Salt River in St. Croix is eee = En the oldest intact colonial : a earthwork fort under SS og ee i / Scan a . — eS. Ancient Taino ceremonial ee exes ri a Co = =e ~ ee ball court and plaza only extant earthwork fort : CBee al Sao ies aaa ge Pal in the entire Caribbean. Laser recommen t Osan tgnieeron — gullet gates eee Begun circa 1640 by the i ee English, it was occupied in ; ee _ eis turn by the Dutch, then the a— French. The fortifications — lie directly adjacent to the Z Columbus landing site and an ancient Taino ceremonial ball court and plaza. All these features are part of the National Park System's E : Salt River Bay National Historic Park and Ecological : : Preserve, co-owned by and ; : managed under an agree- : ment with the government : ; of the Virgin Islands. The Daily News of May 13, 1938, reported the 1934 discov- ery by Alvarez Julien of skeletal tak Sk. remains and pottery sherds on ty ate (ont She S Water Island. Based upon the eS aN (ee direct association of shells, eae Pee A ase stone implements and pottery # +t 2 Ss in the area, Julien suspected _ — \ the remains to be Carib Indian y Ns, AM in origin. In 1936 he brought 2 PN 2 news of his find to the atten- \ Tar, Vai og tion of J.C. Trevor, who was SS pans el st conducting field work on the * ade $+" % sr Negroes of the Eastern Carib- 7 ie 2 bean under his fellowship in Choe Teepe arate An old scale found on St. John and donated to Cruz Bay Museum on July had been re-interred and while : 2 8, 1974, by Russel Dennem. al sould not pe rexestad: 4 those that could were donate Pte Beg < Fey aes RS os by Julien to Oxford Universit Ps tats Male Pet. a C_— a eee mae ea Fo op ag mo fer further identification and Y “ae Se es = OS ig adie oe ae. gk ee Seed sty A ale rie ra ¢ Siar ae eee eee Bee S